We often do not know what to say to someone who is suffering from something - an illness, or a loss. Often we are conditioned to how the one suffering perceives it. Here's a POV.

Women experience pain differently, for different reasons, and also with very different symptoms, so they are regularly disbelieved, expected to endure, and gaslighted. 

While Rheumatoid Arthritis affects women disproportionately more, there is still limited awareness of the disease and its impact in India.

Health of women is thier own responsibility. Michelle Obama says so and the author gives us more reasons to believe why our health lies in our own hands!

Ageing has always been something that people have dreaded, but this author speaks of beginning to love things that she had detested as a young person!